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EP 273.5 Deep Dive. Electricity and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending January 6th, 2026
The new year opens with a familiar pattern: rising technological ambition colliding with real-world limits, fragile infrastructure, and recurring security failures. This week’s stories span energy, aviation, AI, extremism, and cybersecurity, but all share a common thread — systems scaled faster than the safeguards meant to protect them.
Across the United States, communities are pushing back against massive AI-driven data center expansions. Once marketed as quiet engines of innovation, these facilities are now viewed as loud, resource-intensive neighbors that strain power grids, water…
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